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A Tribunal Born of Fear and Hope

How a Canadian judge forced Slobodan Milosevic to face his accusers

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Robert Matas

Robert Matas is a journalist, formerly of The Globe and Mail, based in Vancouver. He has written extensively about the missing women of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the Robert Pickton trial and British Columbia’s Missing Women Commission of Inquiry.

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They’re Still Missing

An insider’s account of the bungled hunt for Robert Pickton January | February 2016
Lori Shenher, the first Vancouver cop to focus on Robert Pickton as a serial killer, thought about writing a book when she feared she would become a scapegoat for the failure of police to stop the barbaric murders. However, the families of Pickton’s victims criticized her for signing a book contract. Some felt Shenher had betrayed their…

Still Unresolved

Two books on the Air India tragedy reject official findings. December 2005

The Questions Remain

After exhaustive reporting, we still don’t know who Robert Pickton killed and why November 2010
Serial killer Robert William Pickton, a pig farmer who butchered women as if they were animals, has grabbed headlines across the country for almost a decade. We have learned more than many want to know about this wretched man and his depraved killings. But we still do not have a final reckoning. The questions remain: Who did he…

The Wrong Man

Is it possible the RCMP were targeting the wrong suspects in the Air India investigation? September 2006